Lynn Ames

Lynn’s Bio:

Lynn Ames is the best-selling author of sixteen genre books and the award-winning biography of the greatest catcher who ever played women’s softball, Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story (Chicago Review Press, 2023). She also is the writer/director/producer of the history-making documentary, Extra Innings. This historically important documentary chronicles, for the first time ever in her own words, the real-life story of Hall-of-Famer Dot Wilkinson and the heyday of women’s softball.

Lynn’s fiction has garnered her a multitude of awards and honors.

Lynn is the founder of Phoenix Rising Press. She is also a former press secretary to the New York state senate minority leader and spokesperson for the nation’s third-largest prison system. For more than half a decade, she was an award-winning broadcast journalist. She has been editor of a critically acclaimed national magazine and a nationally recognized speaker and public relations professional with a particular expertise in image, crisis communications planning, and crisis management.usual.

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Out at the Plate Blurb:

“Dot Wilkinson was the greatest female catcher ever to play softball. A bold, pioneering athlete, she refused to let others define her and instead defined herself. Her story is an inspiration to people everywhere.” —Billie Jean King, Sports Icon and Champion for Equality

It’s not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women’s softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933–1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth—over a century—although any of these things by themselves would be impressive.

The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it.

Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate, told through the lens of Dot and Lynn’s friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women’s history and sports, and one extraordinary woman’s place at the center of it all.

More about Lynn

Q. What publisher are you with?

A. Phoenix Rising Press (my own press) & Chicago Review Press for biography

Q. What Genres do you write?

A. Romance, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Historical Fiction, Biography; General Fiction

Q. What made you join the sapphic lit pop up bookstore?

A. I love the synergy of authors helping authors, especially within our community. The Sapphic Lit Pop-Up Bookstore is the ultimate, living example of standing together to lift each other up.

Q. What was your first pop-up event?

A. My first pop-up event was Women’s FEST in Rehoboth, DE in April 2024. I was blown away by the sense of camaraderie and community. It’s been the same every time since.

Q. What made you start writing?

A. I wrote my first novel at ten years old as a means of survival and escape. In 2003, I returned to my first love and wrote my first novel for publication. I had never seen myself reflected back at me in the pages of a book until I was in my twenties. I wanted to ensure that no one coming behind me would have to endure the same sense of isolation and difference